Positioning patients with large vessel ischemic (clot-caused) stroke with their heads flat (0-degrees) before surgery to remove the blood clot resulted in significant improvements in neurological ...

Significant innovations and advances in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) surgery include minimally invasive techniques, AI-assisted customization, robotic assistance and 3D-printed and ...

It’s one of the lessons from the hospital frontlines and it was reinforced during the recent coronavirus pandemic— positioning matters. A significant percentage of pneumonia patients who were placed ...

Awake prone positioning reduced need for intubation in selected patients with severe COVID-19, a meta-analysis showed. In pooled randomized controlled trials (RCTs), awake prone positioning ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Prone positioning significantly reduced the need for intubation among nonintubated adults with ...

Placing hospitalized COVID-19 patients who are on oxygen in a facedown position significantly improves their chance of survival, a large-scale review has found. The study of non-intubated patients, ...

There is no clear evidence showing that any particular frequency of changing a person's position (repositioning) or any particular position (e.g. tilting the bed to a 30-degree angle) works better ...

Awake prone positioning is a well-established non-pharmacological intervention to improve lung oxygenation. During the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, this process has received ...

Hospital beds for stroke patients are typically elevated at the head, however, a flat head position before surgical removal of a blood clot in the brain (thrombectomy) may lead to better outcomes.